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With an outstanding starring performance from Benedict Cumberbatch illuminating its fact-based story, The Imitation Game serves as an eminently well-made entry in the "prestige biopic" genre. Read critic reviews
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In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma -- which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing's team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison.
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Rating: PG-13 (Mature Thematic Material|Historical Smoking|Some Sexual References)
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Genre: History, Drama, Biography, Lgbtq+
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Original Language: English
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Director: Morten Tyldum
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Producer: Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
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Writer: Graham Moore
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $91.1M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Weinstein Co.
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Production Co: Black Bear Pictures, Bristol Automotive
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a sound piece of cinema. mathematics, war and homosexualism. benedict cumberbatch plays the totally not normal genius alan turin passionately. good job from all the supporting cast.
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The dialogue is wonderfully snappy, but the problem with Benedict Cumberbatch playing fundamentally unlikeable characters is that, well, he plays characters that are fundamentally unlikeable. Still, a great film for the progressive cause.
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Alan Turing turned out to be one of our greatest minds in history. What he accomplished during WWII and beyond just before his death will forever be remembered, and The Imitation Game gives us a moving tribute to a brief period of his life that mattered most. Even with some stellar acting from our lead Benedict Cumberbatch and quite the proper supporting cast, why do I feel like the climax never quite reached the top of the crest before coming back down the other side? I get that Turing was a tinkerer, but throughout the film, instead of feeling connected with a character's mind to see at least try and understand what's going on, the movie instead keeps the viewer at arms length, much like the rest of his team until the machine magically gets completed at the end of the second act. Sure we get the machine cost 100,000 pounds and that it works on electricity from being unplugged or switched off and on countless times, but at least give the audience the benefit of the doubt to try and understand how it works with some more depth. That aside, Cumberbatch and company put in excellent performances from beginning to end. Keira Knightley and him shine together on screen with each other's nuances worn on their sleeves. The importance of the film is doubled with the inclusions of Mark Strong and Charles Dance in brief, but crucial scenes they act the hell out of over the two hours. Immediately, my mind went to comparing this movie to A Beautiful Mind. While that ended up being more of a love story and look into mental illness, The Imitation Game sticks to more of an espionage theme. Perhaps that's why I still consider the former better than the latter here, but overall, whenever the silver screen gives us a chance to peek into great minds like these, I'm more than happy to sit back and be amazed.
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Interesting and absorbing biopic of Allan Turing, the man who cracked Enigma, the Nazi code-generating machine, thereby helping win the war and marking the dawn of the computer age. If there ever was a name that predestined it's bearer to take the stage, it's Benedict Cumberbatch, and he lives up to it with a galvanizing portrayal of a man with a brilliant mind but severe lack of social skill. Keira Knightley is a treat providing the lone female presence, a math savant who joins Turing's team and later enters into in an engagement of mutual convenience with him. A well-written, informative film covers these events of historical importance with intelligence, wit, and class.
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